I am not Scottish, but the most prominent one I learned of in my line of work is Alexander Fleming for discovering (at first from accident I believe, then by experiementation) that mold prevented staph growth. He called the newly discovered substance penicillin. There are many famous inventors and scientists, however from Scotland, so perhaps do a Google search to find more.

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I am not Scottish, but the most prominent one I learned of in my line of work is Alexander Fleming for discovering (at first from accident I believe, then by experiementation) that mold prevented staph growth. He called the newly discovered substance penicillin. There are many famous inventors and scientists, however from Scotland, so perhaps do a Google search to find more.

Googling for the information is what 'normal' people would do, NJDNA.... I don't think that applies in this case!

James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest physicists of all time (In my personal top 3 with Newton and Einstein), was Scottish. The Wikipedia list had him on it, but he's significant enough to point out aside from all the others. Wikipedia has a pretty good bio on him here. Aside from being the first to assemble the (correct) versions of the basic electromagnetic field equations (known as Maxwell's Equations in his honor), he also did much of the foundational work in the Kinetic Gas Theory and Statistical Mechanics.